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Titanic passenger’s pocket watch sells for $2.3 million

A gold-trimmed pocket watch stopped ticking at 2:20 a.m. on April 15, 1912, as the Titanic was sinking in the North Atlantic. Its wealthy owner was seen standing on the deck, arm in arm with his wife, as the ship went down. (PHOTO: The New York Times)

A letter that Ida Straus wrote on Titanic stationery was also sold, for $131,000, at Saturday’s auction in the English county of Wiltshire, southwest of London, the auction house said. (PHOTO: The New York Times)

On Saturday, the watch sold at an auction in England for $2.3 million, a record for a piece of Titanic memorabilia, according to Henry Aldridge & Son, the auction house that organised the sale. (The New York Times)

Source: The New York Times

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